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Geographic differences in sexual reassortment in RNA phage.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2010
O'Keefe Kara J, Silander Olin K, McCreery Helen, Weinreich Daniel M, Wright Kevin M, Chao Lin, Edwards Scott V, Remold Susanna K, Turner Paul E
Abstract excerpt
The genetic structure of natural bacteriophage populations is poorly understood. Recent metagenomic studies suggest that phage biogeography is characterized by frequent migration. Using virus samples mostly isolated in Southern California, we recently showed that very little population structure exists in segmented RNA phage of the Cystoviridae family due to frequent segment reassortment (sexual genetic mixis)...
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